What’s new in Elderella

Your care team, all in one place

Chat with your care team right inside Elderella, track anything you want to keep an eye on, and pin what you use most to your elder’s home for quick access.

Talk with your care team

• Care team chats. Talk with your care team right inside Elderella, in group chats and one-on-ones for each elder, with photos and voice typing. Mention Ella and she answers in the chat.
• Chat notifications. Choose for each chat: every message, only mentions and one-on-ones, or nothing. Unread counts and the app badge show what’s new.
• Ella reads photos in chats. Ella picks up the text in photos shared in care team chats, and photos sent in a linked Signal group are saved as documents.

Keep track of anything

• Trackers. Track anything in your own words: headaches, sleep, blood pressure, how a new medication is going. Ella records each entry from what you say, reminds you when it’s time for the next entry, and follows up on what you wrote.

What matters, one tap away

• Pins. Pin up to three things to an elder’s home, like a medication, a document, or a task, and open each one in a tap.
• Widgets and quick notes. Add an iPhone widget for each elder and a Quick Note button in Control Center. On Android, take a note in one tap from the home screen or Quick Settings.
• Siri opens your pins. Ask Siri to open an elder’s pinned items.
• Updates on your lock screen. On iPhone, a protected call and suggestions waiting for your review show right on your lock screen.

Capture it, keep it

• Share recordings to Elderella. Send a recording from Voice Memos or your phone’s recorder straight into Elderella.
• Visit summaries. Long voice notes now start with a short summary of what was discussed, what changed, and what to do next (Plus and Premium).
• Jump around a call recording. Drag or tap the progress bar to go to any point.
• Who gives each medication. Choose who gives a medication, and its reminders go to that person.
• Schedule on the TV. Put the elder’s day on a TV, with who is with them each day. Sign the TV in by scanning a QR code, and a shared rota calendar syncs in whole.

Plan ahead

• Care Map: “When you need it”. New guidance for a hospital stay and for after a death. Item pages are calmer, and adding a first note marks an item as in progress.
• What Elderella knows. The briefing hub lists what Elderella already knows about your elder and where it learned each thing. Briefings gain a friends and social life section.

A new look and a new start

• Ella’s new look. Ella and the Elderella icon are now our firefly.
• Call Protection is now Care Number. Same feature, same number, clearer name.
• A new start for new families. Setup asks how your care team talks today, invites each person on their own, and welcomes invited care team members straight into the care team chat.

Safe and steady

• Works offline. Your elders, notes, pins, and screens stay readable with no connection, and your changes send when you’re back online.
• Scam alerts for everyone. Elderella flags calls to your elder’s care number that look like financial scams, and says what raised the concern.
• More private on a locked phone. The app lock shows before any of your elder’s details, and Siri asks for Face ID before reading anything out.
• Siri stays signed in. Siri no longer asks a signed-in caregiver to sign in again.
• Invites that reach people. Elderella tells you when an invite can’t reach someone or an email bounces, and a landline gets an email instead of a text.
• Import from contacts. Fill in a phone number from your contacts when you set up Care Number or edit a contact.

Smaller things

• Voice notes. Long uploads resume and show their progress. Copy a whole transcript or visit summary in one tap.
• Repeating tasks. Changing a repeating task’s time or day now moves it, and apostrophes stay as typed.
• Clearer screens. Larger reading text, roomier buttons, and plainer wording across the app.
• Weak signal. No more false “permission denied” or load-error messages when your signal drops.

Nothing slips away

Your notes and changes now save even when the connection drops, everyone on the care team can chat with Ella, and capturing a note takes a single tap.

Nothing slips away

• Never lose your work. Voice notes, photos, medications, appointments, documents, and care team changes now save on your device and sync on their own when you’re back online. Nothing slips away if the connection drops mid-save.

Ella, for the whole care team

• Everyone can chat with Ella. Everyone on your care team can now chat with Ella, not just the primary caregiver. Ella only ever shows each person what they’re allowed to see.
• A more careful Ella. Ella no longer claims things she didn’t check, grounds her answers about Elderella, and stops offering upgrades when you’re just asking a question.
• Better briefings for the whole team. Every caregiver gets their briefing content and an accurate “here’s your day.”

Capture it once, capture it right

• One-tap note capture. Capture a note with a single tap on iPhone and Android, and it files to the right person automatically.
• Import a voice memo. Bring an already-recorded voice memo into a note instead of recording it again.
• Longer call recordings. Call protection now records calls up to 60 minutes, and both voice notes and call protection tell you the recording time limit up front.
• Recovered lost recordings. Voice notes that previously failed, cut off, or came back as “No speech detected” are now recovered, and quiet appointment recordings are boosted so they transcribe.
• Better recording and playback. Voice recording works again on Android, recording waits for a Bluetooth headset to be ready, and playback lets you drag and tap to seek accurately, with a clear message if it fails.
• Better prescription capture. See the photo before it sends, return to the medication screen afterward, and get more details (pharmacy, prescriber, purpose) pulled from the label.

Your care team

• Clearer care team invites. Say what you’re asking of each person you invite, see who has and hasn’t responded, and send a gentle reminder to anyone who hasn’t.
• Pick a care team member as the provider. Choose someone from the care team in an event’s Provider field.
• Care team fixes. A suggestion to add someone already on the team is now actionable, Edit opens the screen that can save changes, and members link to their account by phone or email.
• Referral confirmations. Both people hear about it when a referral goes through.

Day to day

• Repeating tasks, more than once a day. Set a task to repeat several times in the same day.
• Alerts on the elder’s home screen. Caregiver alerts now show right on the elder’s home screen.
• Open what Elderella already has. When Elderella shows something it already has on file, tap the row to jump straight to it.
• No more accidental duplicates. When you add something that already exists, Elderella offers to update it instead of creating a duplicate.
• Accurate notification counts. The app-icon badge and in-app counts now match what’s actually waiting.
• Tidier phone numbers. Phone numbers are formatted in medication, event, and care team fields.

Getting started and your plan

• A smoother first-time setup. A redesigned welcome and setup flow makes getting started faster and clearer for new caregivers.
• Onboarding location fixes. Changing the country now updates the province, and the elder form accepts entries like “Ontario” and “Canada.”
• Faster sign-in. Your login code fills in automatically and more reliably.
• Heads-up before a trial ends. A clear warning before a trial ends, the screening number stays through its paid month, and care team members are told when a paused trial affects their access.
• A gentler way to change plans. A redesigned in-app path to move to the free plan, plus clearer upgrade prompts when you reach a limit.

Smaller things

• A quieter home screen. The “Welcome back” pop-up is gone, and a failed-upload notice no longer covers the header.
• Fewer review requests. After you leave a review, Elderella won’t ask again for a year.

A steadier Elderella

Voice notes that save every time, a calendar that shows multi-day stays at a glance, and a quick way to tell Ella when an answer helped.

Ella carries more of the load

• Tell Ella when she helped. Give any of Ella’s answers a thumbs up or down, and her replies keep getting more helpful.
• Jump back to the latest message. A new button takes you straight to Ella’s newest reply after you’ve scrolled up.
• Saved answers match what you asked. When you keep one of Ella’s answers as a report, it saves the exact answer you asked about.
• Ella credits the right person. Ella now attributes a note to whoever wrote it, not whoever is reading it.

Your calendar, clearer

• Multi-day events at a glance. Appointments and stays that span several days now show as one continuous band across the calendar.
• Delete an event once. Removing an event in Elderella also clears it from your connected calendar, so it won’t linger.

On the Care Map

• Know what’s ahead. New Care Map guidance helps you understand common care steps and what to expect next.

Smaller things

• Reliable voice notes. Long voice notes save dependably, retry on their own if the connection drops, and finish uploading even when they’re large.
• A dot for what’s new. A small red dot marks an elder who has notifications you haven’t seen.
• Faster to open. Elderella starts up noticeably quicker.

Send Ella a photo, and let her carry more

Snap a photo straight into chat and Ella takes it from there, allergy warnings that check against every medication, an app that locks itself by default, and the Signal, Gmail, and Google Drive connections now open to everyone.

Ella carries more of the load

• Send Ella a photo in chat. Snap a pill bottle, a lab result, or a letter, and Ella reads it, replies, and files what she finds — no typing.
• Save an answer as a PDF. Keep any answer from Ella as a tidy report you can share.
• Comprehensive Report. Pull the elder’s whole record — medications, appointments, care team, and more — into one document to hand a doctor.
• Hands-free Care Map. Mention something in chat that covers a Care Map step and Ella offers to check it off; you just confirm.
• Faster replies. Ella answers sooner and quietly saves anything worth keeping while you talk.
• Start a chat fresh. Archive or clear a conversation with Ella whenever you like.

Keeping the people you care for safe

• Allergy tracking. Elderella spots allergies in your messages and photos, checks them against the medications on file, and warns you before something clashes. Allergies show up in briefings.
• App lock. Elderella keeps your care details behind your fingerprint, face, or passcode — on by default.

Medications, easier to live with

• Grouped by time of day. Doses now sit under morning, noon, evening, and night.
• What each one is for. See the reason for every medication, especially the as-needed ones.
• Bring one back. Reactivate a stopped medication instead of adding it again from scratch.
• Ella tidies duplicates. When the same medication turns up twice, Ella can merge it for you.

Appointments

• Record the visit. With Plus or Premium, record what the doctor says right from the appointment, and get a reminder before you go in.

Bring more information in

• Signal group chats. Connect a family group chat on Signal and messages about care get captured on their own.
• Gmail and Google Drive. Link your Gmail and Google Drive and care documents come in without copying anything over.

Care team and briefings

• Invite a contact to Elderella. Turn a contact-only care team member into a full member, and send a reminder if they haven’t joined yet.
• Fix a briefing fact. Remove a wrong fact from a briefing, or add your own “what to watch for” note.

Smaller things

• Remember your maps app. Pick your preferred maps app once for Get Directions and Elderella remembers it.
• A guided tour. A short tour of the More menu helps new caregivers find their way.
• Smarter duplicate tasks. Elderella is better at catching when a task is really one you already have.
• Everyday polish. Tap a screen’s title to go back, dates fill in their own dashes as you type, and Ella addresses you by the right name.

Talk to Ella out loud

Speak to Ella and watch her work, a new home for your briefings, and appointments that fill themselves in.

Highlights

• Talk to Ella out loud. Tap the mic and just talk to her instead of typing. Ella shows the steps she’s taking as she looks things up, lets you stop her mid-answer, marks where each fact came from, and replies in whatever language you write in.
• Every briefing in one place. All your care briefings now live together, where you can read them right in Elderella, correct anything that isn’t right, regenerate, or share as a PDF — opening as a proper document you can rotate to landscape and zoom through.
• Medications that keep up with you. Adding a medication no longer pauses while Elderella checks for interactions; the check runs in the background and tells you if something turns up. And when a medication looks like one already on file, Elderella says so before it’s added twice.
• Appointments that fill themselves in. Paste a confirmation email or text and Elderella pulls out the date, time, and place for you, along with a suggested list of questions to ask. Comment and reply on any appointment, and reorder your tasks right in the list.
• A care team that’s easier to build. Add a member straight from your phone’s contacts, let addresses autocomplete as you type, and let Elderella catch the duplicates before they happen.

See what’s ahead, not just today

Our biggest addition yet: Care Map, plus a single daily briefing that pulls the day together for you.

Highlights

• Care Map. The list of things to do when you’re not sure where to start, from everyday caregiving to the harder long-term decisions.
• Smarter medications. Elderella spots when a new medication is the brand or generic version of one already on the list, recognizes over-the-counter supplements, and makes interaction warnings clearer with a place to review them anytime.
• Care team details, filled in for you. Add a doctor or care professional and Elderella looks them up online to fill in their contact details for you.
• Switch between the people you care for, faster. A drop-down menu right in the home header lets you move between them, and Elderella remembers who you looked at last.
• Invite Ella to your appointments. Add Ella to a calendar invite and the appointment shows up in Elderella automatically. Perfect if you’d rather not connect your whole calendar.
• Smoother and more reliable. Many speed and stability improvements so Elderella stays responsive even under heavy load.

And also in 1.10

• One simple briefing. Your daily briefing pulls everything together: what happened while you were away, what needs you, and the one thing worth doing this week.
• What makes them who they are. Capture faith, traditions, and the moments that shaped their life, so their story stays with everyone caring for them.
• Fix a detail in seconds. If something in the briefing isn’t right, correct it once and it stays corrected.
• Medication reminders set up for you. Add a medication and Elderella can create its reminders.
• As-needed medications. Mark anything that isn’t on a fixed schedule.
• Phone extensions. Save and dial numbers that include an extension.
• Pending invites. See when a care team invite is still waiting to be accepted.
• Notes find their appointment. Notes are connected automatically to the appointment they belong to.
• Know who called. Call history shows the care team member’s name, captures unknown numbers, and lets you copy a call transcript.
• Doctors pulled from your notes. Professionals mentioned in your notes and documents can be added to your care team automatically.
• One request, one reminder. Asking for a reminder several times a day now creates a single task instead of many.
• A warmer welcome. Gentler setup for new caregivers.

A new home screen, and every call captured

Call protection arrives, a rebuilt home screen, and safer medications.

Highlights

• Call protection. Give your elder a dedicated Elderella number to share with doctors, pharmacies, and family. Calls ring through to their real phone, but Elderella sits quietly in the middle, recording and transcribing every conversation. Read exactly what was said, search the call history, and keep their real number private. Available on Plus and Premium plans.
• A brand-new home screen. Your daily care snapshot, rebuilt from the ground up. Smarter cards, milestone celebrations, and a cleaner layout make it easier to see what matters most today.
• Medication safety. Elderella flags risky drug combinations when you add or edit a medication, and asks you to confirm moderate interactions before saving.
• See where every detail comes from. Ella points to the note, task, event, or medication behind each answer, and any care detail traces back to its origin, whether a call, a message, or a document. Notes, chat, medications, and events all link back.

And also in 1.9

• Briefings in the background. Start one, keep going, and get a tap-to-open notification when it’s ready.
• Pharmacy details at hand. Edit pharmacy and prescription details, and tap any number to call the pharmacy or prescriber.
• Scan and carry on. Photograph a pill pack and get back to your day; review the results when the scan finishes.
• Record with confidence. Pause and resume, keep recording when your screen turns off, and recover your work if something interrupts you.
• Two-person conversations. When two people are talking, the note reads as a clean back-and-forth instead of one block of text.
• Notes get comments and reactions. The whole team can weigh in, and see who’s taken part.
• Errors that point the way. Forms now show the exact field that needs fixing.
• Gentler by design. Better color contrast and support for your phone’s Reduce Motion setting.
• Plain-language messages. Friendlier wording when something goes wrong, instead of raw error codes.
• Care Map upgrades. A new browse screen, a weekly task card, milestone badges, and a smoother flow for capturing what matters.
• A daily plan, with reasons. Ella can suggest what to focus on today and why, with a tidy-up section (in beta).
• Edit a profile inline. Tap any field on the About tab or Home to update a name, birthday, or other details on the spot.
• Siri, refreshed. Updated voice commands so “Hey Siri, ask Ella…” works more reliably on iPhone.

A smoother setup, and clearer notifications

Highlights

• Improved notifications. When several reminders arrive together, you now see your elder’s name in the title and each task called out by name, instead of repeated headers. Task reminders turn on automatically when you add a due date, defaulting to a sensible noon time. Tapping a task’s disabled reminder opens the edit screen at the due date so you can turn it on.
• Revamped onboarding. Clearer steps from start to finish, a new “How did you find us?” question, an optional WhatsApp family group setup that adds Ella as a participant, and a redesigned Add to Team flow where you enter details first and choose whether to invite afterwards. When you add a new elder during onboarding, your text routing switches automatically so Ella knows who you’re texting about.
• Support for tentative events. Events your elder mentions as “maybe” or “possibly” are saved as Tentative, so they don’t clutter your confirmed calendar. You can see at a glance which events are set and which still need a decision.
• Redesigned home screen. Post-onboarding and reminder cards now use a single system with proper priority ordering, so the most important cards rise to the top and the layout stays consistent as you move through setup.

The foundation

Daily briefings, vaccine tracking, and dozens of improvements caregivers asked for.

Catch up in one read

• Catch Me Up. A personalized daily briefing replaced the old weekly summary, giving you a quick read on what’s been happening.
• Softer daily questions. The daily check-in questions were reworded to feel more natural and less clinical, with a smooth progress bar.

Medications and vaccines, together

• Vaccine tracking. Track vaccinations alongside medications, keeping both in one place.
• Reminders that fit real life. A new “every other day” option for medications that aren’t taken on a simple daily schedule.
• Add from your photos. Choose an existing photo from your library when adding a medication.

One calendar for everything

• Phone calendar, connected. Caregiving appointments now sit alongside your personal schedule, both ways.

Keep the whole team in the loop

• “Seen by” on notes. Know who on the team has caught up.
• Task notifications. Get notified when a teammate completes a task, with access levels that give medical professionals the right view.
• Shared notes. Care team members can edit each other’s notes, and follow-ups surface in the timeline.

Ella remembers, and helps more

• Ella remembers. She carries context from past chats, so you don’t have to repeat yourself.
• Ask her anything. Ask about medication interactions or how any feature works, and get friendly guidance.
• A warmer tone. Ella feels more personal and adjusts to the time of day.

Fewer interruptions, more control

• Works offline. Create notes, tasks, and events without a connection, and they save once you’re back online.
• Fewer interruptions. Notifications are batched to cut down on alert fatigue.
• You stay in control. Review and edit the details Elderella picks up before you confirm them.

Elderella comes to iPhone

Our first release on both iPhone and Android, plus the features that rounded out the early months: pill-pack scanning, briefings, subscriptions, and WhatsApp for the whole team.

Highlights

• Now on iPhone. Elderella’s first release for iPhone, bringing the full app to Apple alongside Android.
• Pill pack scanning. Photograph a pill pack to capture several medications at once, then set their reminders in one guided step.
• Elder Briefing Note. A warm, one-page summary of an elder to hand to a caregiver, doctor, or family member, with Ella filling in the gaps.
• Google Drive import and Calendar sync. Documents flow in from Google Drive automatically, and an elder’s events stay matched with your everyday calendar.
• Subscriptions and plans. In-app plans with a free trial and per-elder subscriptions.
• WhatsApp for everyone. Bring an elder’s WhatsApp group messages into Elderella, now available to all users.
• See who’s doing what. Care team member cards show how many tasks each person has, and weekly summaries break it down by person.

And also

• Care team invitations during onboarding. Invite family and helpers right from setup.
• Communication preferences. Choose exactly which updates you get, channel by channel.
• Task accountability check-ins. Ella gently nudges the right person about outstanding tasks.
• Review your recordings before sending, attach several photos, or scan multi-page documents in one go.
• In-app document viewing for PDFs, briefings, and text files.
• Self-service data export and a dedicated Help & Support screen.
• Smarter medications. A familiar name with the generic in brackets, schedules read from everyday wording, and dosage changes captured.
• Siri and Google Assistant. Ask by voice and hear Ella’s spoken reply.

Where Elderella began

Elderella’s very first release, on Android — the foundation everything since is built on.

The launch feature set

• Elder profiles and care team. A profile for each person you care for, and invite family and helpers by text or email, each with the right level of access.
• Ella, your care partner. Chat with Ella for warm, region-aware guidance, reachable by text or email to share updates.
• Notes by text, photo, and voice. Capture what’s happening in a tap; hour-long voice notes are written out automatically, and a photo of a document becomes searchable text.
• Tasks and reminders. To-dos, including recurring ones, with gentle, well-timed reminders and quiet suggestions drawn from your notes.
• Medications. Track medications with photo capture, reminders, duplicate checks, and gentle safety notes.
• Events and calendar. Track appointments and connect Google Calendar, with healthcare and family events sorted automatically.
• Sharing by text and email. Coordinate over group texts, and forward appointment emails to a private address that flow straight into Elderella.
• Documents and search. A safe document library with searchable contents, and search that understands meaning across everything.
• Confirm before it’s saved. When Elderella spots a task, event, or medication in what you share, it asks first, so you stay in control.
• A weekly summary and home overview that pull the week’s notes, tasks, and events together at a glance.
• Simple, secure sign-in with a phone code, then Face ID or Touch ID.